James Sharratt, a fly-half for Rossendale RUFC, is impressed with the weightlifters. Photograph: Guardian

More than anything, I've been looking forward to the weightlifting. It's my hobby. One of my friends is the under-23 champion for the north in the under-62kg category. The weightlifters are really impressive – in the women's under-48kg category on Saturday a Chinese lifter came in, cleaned over double her body weight and won the competition.

But I've been watching lots of different sports. I've seen handball, rowing, swimming, beach volleyball and some of the football, anything that was on really. I'm going to carry on watching; two weeks of sport – who could pass that up? And seeing the fastest men in the world in the final of the 100m will be awesome.

As for the British men's team winning bronze at the gymnastics, that was great to see. It makes you so proud and inspires me to want to work with athletes at that level. Seeing us do well will bring the nation together and get people active themselves.

I've enjoyed watching sports that I wasn't expecting to like. The handball, for example, I wasn't expecting to like it at all. But it was so physical and so skilful. Team GB played one of the toughest teams in the world and they didn't let themselves down. And I loved the soundtrack to the opening ceremony. I'm going to download it now.